Accidents due to manual handling rarely cause death, but it can happen. In the financial year 2010/11 a man was killed by falling from a ladder when he was carrying a load. He was a sub-contractor on a building site, but could just as easily have been an employee. It...
The recently published Manual Handling Assessment Chart leaflet, known as the MAC Tool, is designed to help businesses produce the risk assessments for manual handling tasks required by legislation. It was published as part of the Health and Safety Executives...
Under The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, all businesses employing more than five people are obliged to have a documented Health and Safety Policy. All work related incidents or accidents that cause death or major injuries, or result in someone not being fit for...
A diagram included in the Health and Safety Executives official guidance to the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (see below) has given rise to misunderstandings about weight limits in manual handling. Because of this diagram, and the prevalence of building...
The Rugby Football Union recently called in Alistair Bromhead Ltd to run an Evacuation Chair Train the Trainer Course for a number of security managers. The one-day course covered all the technical and practical aspects of handling evacuation chairs and bringing...
When you induct a new member of staff, you know that the health and safety aspects of your premises and operations should be paramount. Among these is the evacuation chair that would be used to ensure that anyone with a mobility problem can be helped to leave the...
